Carline



l. A. COSTELLO.

CARLINE.

APPLICATION FILED IUNE I9. 191i?.

1,314,573. Patentedspt. 2,1919.

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. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

`LTOSEPII A. COSTELLO, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO CLEVELAND CAR SPECIALTY COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, -A CORPORATION 0F WEST VIRGINIA.

CARLINE.

Application led June 19, 1918.

To all whom it may conce/ra:

Be it known that I, Josemi A. COSTELLO, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Carline, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in metal carlines suitable for use in the construction of car-roofs, and pertains more especially to a strong and inexpensive pressed steel carline which is well adapted for use as'one ofthe transverse members of a car-roof-frame comprising two laterally spaced metal side plates adapted to be braced apart and tied together by carlines embodying my invention and can be readily pressed at one operation by means of dies from a single oblong steel plate or sheet of suitable dimensions and applied with facility to the hereinbefore mentioned side plates.

The primary object of this invention is not only to produce a carline of the character indicated which comprises a body in the form of a trough adapted to be interposed endwise between said side plates and has two plate-forming members formed at opposite ends respectively of the carline and rigid with the trough-shaped bodyand arranged to extend under and adapted to be attached to said side plates, butto form a strong connection between said troughshaped body and said plate-forming members centrally between the side edges of said plate-forming members and more especially to render the carline strong and du* rable in its end portions.

With this object in view, and to the end of attaining any other object hereinafter appearing, this invention consists in such peculiarity in the contour of said end portions of the carline and in such combinations and relative arrangement of the parts as are hereinafter described in this specification, pointed out in the claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

'In said'drawings, Figure l is a top plan ofa carline embodying my invention and shows lthe carline applied to the side plates of a car-roof-frame, but the central portion of the carline is broken away to reduce the size of the drawing. Fig. 2 is a vertical seetion taken along the line 2-2, Fig. 1. Figs. l and 2 are drawn on the same scale. Figs. 3, 4

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 2, 1919.

serial No. 240,729.

and 5 are vertical sections taken along the lines 3--3, awel, and 5 5, respectively, Fig. 2, and are drawn on a larger scale than Figs. l and 2.

My improved carline is adapted especially for use in the construction of a car-roofframe comprising two laterally spaced substantially horizontal and substantially parallel metal side plates each of which preferably consists of a Z-bar arranged with its web or' bodyportion A substantially horizontal and with its upper flange a arrranged at the inner side of the side plate formed by said bar. Each side plate is therefore shown as comprising a substantially horizontally arranged body-portion A extending longitudinally of the side plate and a member c which projects upwardly from said body-portion at the inner side and' extends longitudinally of the side plate.

The side plates are adapted to ybe tied to-V gether and braced apart by any suitable number of carlines embodying my invention, and are shown as connected together by one of said carlines.

My improved carline comprises two substantially horizontal plate-forn'iing vmem-` bers B arranged at opposite ends respectively of the carline atthe bottom of the carline. In Figs. l and 2 oncof the plateforming members B is shown as overlapping the under side ofthe body-portion A of one of the side plates, and the other of said plate-forming members is shown overlapping the under side of the body-portion of the other of said-side plates. The carline is secured to the side plates as will hereinafter appear.

My improved carline also comprises a body which is `in the form of a trough b interposed endwise between the upwardly projecting members n. of the side plates and connected at one end'of its bottom to one of the plate-forming members B and connected at the other end of its bottom to the other of said plate-forming members. The trough-shaped body is "rigid with the plate-forming members B.

The trough-shapedbody is shown provided 4at the top with two laterally and outwardly projecting flanges 12 arranged at opposite sides respectively and extending longitudinally and from end to end of said body.

At each end of the ltrough-shaped body I) are formedtwo upright abutment-members 13 for the inner side of the upwardly projecting member a of the adjacent side plate the underside ofkr which isshown overlapped by the plate-form1ng member B adjacent said end of said body, and said abutment-members extend laterally of and outwardly from opposite sides respectively of fore transversely of the body-portion A yof the adjacent side plate and adjacent the space between the adjacent abutment-members 13 and has preferably such con-tour and dimensions that it is substantially as wide as said space and forms a recess 15 whichy is deepest adjacent the inner side of and covered by said side plate and ,f lgradu-ally,` reduced in depth toward the outer end ofsaid plate-forming member. Each plate-forming member B is shown riveted, as at 16,

between .its downwardly offset portion 14 and each side edge of said plate-forming member to the body-portion A of the adjacent side plate.,

Each abutment-member 13 is riveted, as at 18, to the upwardly projecting flange a of the adjacent side plate, and it will be observed that each abutment-member 13 connects the adjacent Hange 12 of the trough 5 with the adjacent plate-forming member B. Each end of the trough has a downward enlargement 19 arranged at the lower end ofthe space between the adjacent abutment members, and. the bottom of said enlarge ment slopes downwardly toward the downwardly offset portion 14 of the adjacent plate-forming member, and the bottom of the recess 15 formed by said offset `portion of said` plate-forming member terminates in said bottom of said enlargement of the trough. A carline having its end portions contoured as hereinbefore described has great strength at the ends of the bottom of the trough and can be pressed at one'operation from a' single plate or sheet of steel by simple and inexpensive dies or tools. Also, any water which results from sweating or condensation internally of said trough and accumulates inthe ends of the troughwill gravitate into the recesses 15 formed at said ends and large enough in dimensions for the purpose, so that said water, instead of remaininguntil evaporated vin contact with opposing surfaces of the carline and side plates, is received by said recessaes where its evaporation is facilitated while being held out of contact with the side plates. y It. will be observed therefore that each downward enlargement 19 of the body of the carline and the offset portion 14 of the adjacent plate-forming member B form not only a reinforcement but a basin arranged under the space between the adjacent abutmentmembers 13 and under the body-portion A of the adjacent side plate.

l/Vhat I claim is v 1. In a metal carline, two spaced substantially horizontal plate-forming members, a trough-shaped body extending between and rigid with said plate-forming members and provided at the top with two laterally and outwardly projecting flanges arranged at opposite sides respectively and extending longitudinally and from end to end of said body, andtwo spaced abutment-members adjacent each plate-forming member and extending to said plate-forming member from said flanges, said abutment-members being spaced transversely ofthe carline, eachend of the aforesaid body having a downward enlargement .at the lower end of the space between the adjacent abutment-members, the

bottom of said enlargement sloping downwardly toward the -adjacent plate-forming member, and each plate-forming member being offse-t downwardly at the adjacent downward enlargement of the aforesaid body and having the bottom of its minating in the 'bottom of said enlargement of said body.

2. In a metal carline, two spaced substantially horizontal plate-forming members, a trouglrshaped body extending between and rigid with said plate-forming members and provided at the top with two laterally and outwardly projecting flanges arranged at opposite sides respectively and extending longitudinally and from end to end of said body, Vand two spaced abutment` members adjacent each plate-forming member and extending to said plate-forming member from said flanges, said abutmentmembers being spaced transversely of the carline, each end of the aforesaid body havlng a downward enlargement at the lower end of the space between the adjacent abutment-members, each plate-forming member being offset downwardly at the adjacent downward enlargement of said body and having its offset portion terminating in ysaid enlargement of said body, and the offset portion of each plate-forming member being substantially as wide as the aforesaid space.

In a metal carline, two spaced substantially horizontal plate-forming members, a trouglrshaped body extending between and rigid with said plate-forming members and provided at the top with two laterally and,v

outwardly projecting flanges arranged at opposite sides respectivelv and extending longitudinally and from end to end of said body, and two spaced abutment-members adjacent each plate-forming member and extendingto said plate-forming member from offset portion tersaid flanges, said abutment-members being spaced transversely of the carline, each end of the aforesaid body having a downward enlargement at the lower end of the space between the adjacent abutment-members, each plate-forming member being offset downwardly at the adjacent downward enlargement of said body, and the offset portion of each plate-forming member and the adjacent downward enlargement of said' body forming a basin arranged under said space. j

t. The combination, with two laterally spaced side plates of a car-roof-frame, of a metal carline comprising two substantially horizontal plate-forming members which extend under and are secured to opposite side plates respectively, which carline has a trough-shaped body extending between and rigid with said plate-forming members of the carline and is provided adjacent each of said plate forming members with two abutment-members arranged at the inner side and spaced longitudinally of and se cured to the adjacent side plate, each plateforming member of the carline having a downwardly offset portion extending from under the space between the adjacent abutment-members in the direction of the outer side of the adjacent side plate and forming a recess which is reduced in depth in said direction.

5. The combination, with two laterally spaced side plates of a car-roof-frame, of a metal carline comprising two substantially horizontal plate-forming members which extend under and are secured to opposite side plates respectively, which carline has a trough-shaped body extending between and rigid with said plate-forming members of the carline and is provided adjacent each of said plate-forming members with two abutment-members arranged at the inner side and spaced longitudinally of and secured to the adjacent side plate, each end of said body having a downward enlargement at the lower end of the space between the adjacent abutment members, each plate forming member of the carline being o'llset downwardly at the adjacent downward enlargement of said body and having the bottom of its oliset portion terminating in the bottom of said enlargement of said body, and the ofl'set portion of each plate-forming member of the carline being substantially as wide as the space between the adjacent abutment-members and extending outwardly from under said space and transversely of the adjacent side plate.

6. The combination, with two laterally spaced side plates of a car-roof-frame, of a metal carline comprising two substantially horizontal plate-forming members which extend under and are secured to opposite side plates respectively, which carline has a trough-shaped body extending between and rigid with said plate-forniiine members of the carline and is provided adjacent each of said plate-forming members with two abutmentmembers arranged at the inner side and spaced longitudinally of and secured to the adjacent side plate, each end of said body having a downward enlargement at the lower end of the space between the adjacent abutmentmembers, each plate-- forming member of the carline being offset downwardly at the adjacent downward enlargement of said body, and the oilset portion of each plate-forming member of the carline and the adjacent downward enlargement of said body forming a. basin arranged under the space between the adjacent abutment-members and under the adjacent side plate.

In testimony whereof I sign the foregoing specification in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH A. COSTELLO.

Vitnesses:

CASPER J. Dovnn, B. O. BROWN.

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